The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-06-16


day afternoon, died at West Pennsylvania
hospital, Pittsburg. Mrs. Hermann will
recover. -
Two convicts, both white, at work with
others on the new Supreme Court building
IN Raleigh, N. O., made an attempt to es.
cape tuesday afternoon. The guard pur
sued and fired ON them, wounding both
one slightly, the other seriously.
Little Rock special describes the exc
cution OF two Indians near the Seminole
Agency, Indian Territory, who had been
convicted by an Indian Court of murder.
They were shot by the Indian sheriff and
deputy, and died at the first fire.
Editor O'Brien was given an informal re-
ception by the New York Press Club at the
club house Monday afternoon About 200
representatives of the New York newspa.
pers were present. Remarks were made
by O'Brien, Bill Nye and several other
journalistic lights.
a collision occurred In the Channel be-
tween the British bark Hamburg, from
New York, for Liverpool, and the British
steamer Tern. The steamer was sunk and
ncr captain and four seamen were drowned.
The Tern was of 5000 tons burden, and
was from Mediterranean ports
A farmer plowing near Live Oak, Fla,
when the ground suddenly gave way under
him, and place 10 or 10 feet square sunk
about eight feet, carrying him and his
team down; but fortunately without in
jury. 1t took several men several hours to
get the horse out.
Frederick Hermann, aged 35, of Pitts
burg, Penn, Monday afternoon killed his
little daughter, aged 10 months by cutting
her throat, beat his wife on the head with a
brick until he thought her dead, and then
cut his own throat, severing the windpipe
and jugular vein.
There has been one death from yellow
fever and one new case at Key West since
Sunday. The record now stands, deaths 6,
sick 8, convalcscent 3; total number of
cases IL. The place is now quarantined by
al ports, as far as known, except New
York and Havana.
The directors of the Richmond and West
Point Terminal Company Tuesday de-
clarcd scmi-annual dividend Of 2t per
cent. on preferred stock, and the directors
of the Richmond and Danville railroad de-
clared ascmiannual dividend Of 3 per cent.
Both dividends are payable July 1.
A party Of six boys were bathing In a
creek near Raleigh, N. c., Tuesday, only
one of whom could swim. Two of them,
Otho Hughes aged ID, and James McPhec-
ters, aged 13, went beyond their depth.
They became frightened, seized each other
and were drowned.
John N. Oliver, whom President Clcve-
land removed from the office of Justice Of
the Peace for the District of Columbia in
April last, still continues to sign his name
as a Justice Of the Peace and refuses to sur
render his Office to his successor The
courts arc to be appealed to to oust the
clinging patriot
The purchasing committee of the Wa
bash Railroad have announced that they
Will protest in Court against the payment
of the big fees recently allowed receivers.
The fees were $112, 500 each, which the pur-
chasing committee consider eXtravagant
and without precedent.
Two New York schoolboys, aged re-
Spectivcly 8 and II, were arraigncd for the
murder Of an old Italian whom they pelted
with stones on their way from school on
Monday. He fell and fractured his skull.
lie died in the hospital. The boys were at
first held for trial, but the coroner dis
charged them.
Thomas Lamb, County Judge Of May
crick county, Texas, killed his brother.
Joseph Lamb, q wealthy ranchman on
Monday on Mexican soil. Thomas was
arrested. The brothers had quarrcled over
the division OF their property. Troops had
to be called out TO keep the Mcxicars from
lynching Thomas
lie wife of Henry George is plump
and pretty little woman, accustomed to
taking her husbands vagaries as n matter
of course. She is described as q matter-of-
fact little body, loving her four children
dcyotcdly and being anxious to have them
well of, if possible.
Francis B. Loomis, formerly connected
with the Philadelphia Press and now State
Librarian of Ohio, is quoted as saying: "I
know that Blaine has instructed his friends
TO commence his canvass. He wishes to
have the nomination come to him as If un-
solicited"
The will of the late Justice Woods be-
queaths his gold watch, swords, commits
Sions, and sundry other articles of personal
value to his son and daughter, and his real
estate and furniture in Washington and
Newark, Ohio, to his widow. 1t was made
on the 28th of April last
The Indian outbreak in Arizona Terri
tory is assuming serious proportions. The
widespread dcpredations indicate that there
are many more than II bucks, as at first
reported, on the war path. The whole
county is fired with excitement, and 1t Is
feared that parties will organize to visit
San Carlos reservation. In such an event
there viii be great slaughter. Advices are
coming from all directions of outrages.
w. H. Green, the only colored man ever
admitted to the signal service, has been dis
missed from that service without O charac-
ter. The only significance in this order
lies in the fact that Green is q colorcd man,
and IS the man over whom Gen Hazcn and
Secretary of War Lincoln had a contro-
VcrSy. Ills career has been throughout I'M
satisfactory.
The dry goods house of c. Gray & Co.,
OF Augusta, has been boycottcd by the Car
penters, and JOiners' Assembly, In which
the knights Of Labor Assemblies arc ioin-
ing. MIR. Gray recently refused to CO.
operate with all the other dry goods mcr-
chants who agreed to close their stores at 6
p. NJ.
On Tuesday night Paul Lncke, a promi-
ncnL farmer of Beaufort county, N. c.,
was shot dead while asleep In bed at the
town Of Washington. The shooting was
done by quite prominent young lawyer |
named VIM. A. Pelts Jaifer. He has made |
full confession of the crime, but will not |